Rs 209 cr order from Assam govt for Educomp

Updated on: Thursday, April 05, 2012

Education solutions provider Educomp said its ICT division, Edureach has bagged an order worth Rs 209 crore from the Assam government under the ICT@Schools project.
 
Educomp said in a statement, that it signed the agreement with Assam Electronics Development Corporation Ltd, Government of Assam on March 23, 2012 for the implementation of Rajiv Gandhi Computer Education Programme (RGCEP),
 
RGCEP reaches 1,054 government high and higher secondary schools in the state and over 6.5 lakh students are expected to benefit from this programme every year, it added.
 
Educomp said the company now reaches a total of 12,176 government schools across 10 states, serving over 6.7 million students with the addition of 1,054 government schools in Assam.
 
The project will be implemented under Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) model for a period of five years.
 
Educomp will provide an IT lab, teachers, annual training workshops, web-based school management and monitoring software, multimedia educational content as per the state board curriculum covering subjects like Mathematics, Social Studies, English and General Science as well as courses on spoken English.
 
Edureach President Soumya Kanti said, "We are pleased that over 6.5 lakh students in Assam will now have access to computers, computer-aided learning and learning tools which will bring their learning on par with many of their privileged city counterparts."
 
Till date, Educomp has implemented ICT programmes under the PPP (Public Private Partnership) model in 36,401 schools across 15 states, the statement said.

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